The Osceola times., 1887-05-21

on the 10th Colonel W. r. Bolton, who
did gallant service o. commander of Boil
tons Battery In the civil war, was finally
removed from Chicago TO the Joliet peni-
tentiary. He has for some time been un-
der sentence for two years for embesziing
large sums collected by him as chief OF
the mailing division in the Chicago post
once.
OK the ilth fire at New Boston, n H.,
destroyed the town house, one church,
two chapels, one store and shop and seven
dwellings Loss, $4,000; Insurance, SIS.
000
SHAW Bnos' tannery at Grand Lake
Stream. Me-, also saw-mill. dry-house,
roll lof. an immense building that GOV.
cred the vats, and 1000 sides Of leather
were burned on the llth- Loss, tl2s, 200.
On the llth Calvin Graves, who was
convicted at CalIas, Me-. for shooting and
killing Game. W ardens Niles and Hill, was
sentenced 10 i'm Imprisonment at hard labor
for life. The verdict was murder in the
second degree.
WHILE plowipg on his farm near Mich
igan City, Ind, on the 1lth, Martin Bout
exploded q dynamite bomb which had
been placed there by unknown parties
His arm was blown OF and he was other
wise terribly mangled He Will hardly
recover.
AT Carey, O., on the i2th, Stephen
Slough was decapitated by the cars.
HARRY GoRxAS, q sailor, was killed at
Cleveland, o., on the l2th, by dcs perate
character named Higgins.
Particulars reached San Francisco on
the l2th Of the sinking Of the steamer
Benton, March, on Malacca, by which
ono hundred and fifty persons lost their
lives
THE schooner Laura Madison. which ar
rived at Umpqua, Ore, May 10. reports
seeing the ship Ocean King on May s,
thirty Ave miles west Of Caps Arago on
fre and abandoned
ANDREW MALoSEr, employed on the
new courthouse at Pittsburgh, Pa, care
lessly stepped from stone elevator, Or
the 18th, whom l55 feet from the ground
When picked up there was scarcely q
whele bone in his body, He was conscious,
however, and eeht a message to his wife
and family. Shortly after removal to the
hospital he died.
jim JONES, negro murderer, was exc.
cuted at Texarkana, Tex, on the 18th.
ALBERT TURNER, one Of Jennie Bow.
mans murderers at Louisville, KY, plead
cd guilty on the 18th, and was senten ced
TO be hanged July l.
An encounter with pistol and hatches
took place at Senoia, Ga, or the 18th, be
tween I. N. Burdette and L. W. Couch.
The latter was instantly killed and the
former will die.
A CYCLONE swep. over Gage County.
Neb., on the 18th, striking the town OF
Blue Springs All telegraph wires were
down, and only meagcr particulars are at
hand. Several houses were leveled and a
church unroofed. Ono man, at least, was
fatally injured, and woman was struck
by lightning and instantly killed.
CHARLEY BoBTAn, an Indian, has been
arrested for the murder Of Marshal Maple
In the Indian Territory.
CONFEDERATION occurred in Que bee on
the 14th, involving a loss of upward 5i
el25,O0 with only about ~ 900 insurance.
TnB steamer Empire State was burned
at her wharf at Bristol, r. l., on the l4th.
Loss, 800, 100; insurance. $40 900
Wx. H. SANFORD, of Washington, Ind,
shot his son Hamlet, aged sixteen years,
on the night Of the 18Th, killing him in
stantly, mistaking him for a burglar.
The jury before whom Morris Max was
| tried In New York for the murder Of his
| landlady, Mrs Annie Jakowski. retu I'm ed
a verdict Of manslauyhter in the first de
gre,.
FRED SCHROEDER, miserly reeluse,
eighty'two years OF age, whose house In
Cincinnati was 10 have been sold for taxes
on the ll,h, set fire to 1t during the night
preceding, and it was consumed He ac-
knowledged the act, an | said they might
hang him II they wanted to, as he was
tired OF living
The straw-boari mill at Wooster, O.
owned by Albert Immgard, of New York
was destroyed by fire on the 18th. Loss,
f,3,0OO, Insurance, $l4,0M
| ALEXANDER WuILLpgS, JR, a prominent
yarn merchant representing large South
ern industries in Philadelphia, committed
suicide by shooting on the lith, In Dobbs
woods, near Camden, N. j. His busines,
Affairs were In prosperous condition ant
the deed Is attributed to a temporary fl
OF insanity.
| FouR young people attending German
picnic, went out in a row boat on the 18Th
opposite Lacrosse, WiA The men, hal
drunk, sought TO frighten Miss kati,
Litske, the only lady IN the boat. by rock
ing. The boat capsized AMI Miss Litskt
and John Boyer were drowned, The othci
two men were saved.
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